The evening world. Newspaper, July 22, 1908, Page 12

PILE, THK The Evening Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Cempany, Nos. 68 te @ Park Rew, New York. POREPA PULITZER, Pros., 1 East 184 Biroet 4, ANGUS BILAW, Seaveae, 901 West 1190 treet — me Tntered at the Post-Office at New York aa Second-Clasa Mall Matter. scription Rates to The Evening | For England and the Continent and P World for the United States All Countries in the International and Canada. Postal Union, ; One Year.. $8.50 One Year.. ae One Month. O One Mfonth. ' NO, 17,187, VOLUME 49.. — SOCIETY AND MONEY. | But what of that? The son of any one of the thirty-seven push-| cart men strung along Park Row and Ann street today may be the lead-| ing plutocrat of the next generation, The son of one of the Twenty- fourth street horse traders may be another John D. Rockefeller, whose| father was a horse trader. eal New York society is really not based upon ancestry but upon money. | Of the social leaders to-day, how many bear the names of the leading | men in the colonial and revolutionary days? The first colonial governor | was named Joris. There are several Jorises on the registry list. Sup-| pose that one of them was rich enough, his wife would soon blos- som out as a Colonial Dame with a pedigree and the Joris coat of arms, New York City’s first charter fs called after Gov. T gan. How many Thomas Dongans there are in New York to-day who would envy the proprietor of a Prosperous butter and cheese busi- ness! homas Don- How many of New York's Grahams are ¢ ed from the speaker of the first colonial essem- bly, of which John Robinson, Will- jam Merrett, Matthew Howell, Dan- iel Whi {and the possessors of other common names to-day were members ? Old Greenwich village tas more women entitled to be Col- onial Dames avenue, Any of the old farming neighbor hoods on Long Island has longer New York ancestry than the averag’ occupants of a metropolitan opera box. Whether the mone farm or cole: a condler elaer_ mad: ~ Letters-from the People. To the I ing \ : 8 Ave | To the Bilitor of cents’ wor fe and; Was Pr Much nemled r ealth and! nated for Mayor @ility to work give bread and @ home York? World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, July 22; 1908. Gio, : ———— “Your Play, Bill.” By OOO U) TIC OC OO GOCO00 000000 0000000000 000000 0000000; Fifty - Great Love Stories of History By Albert Payson Terhune ) ) “Scar.” SOO OOCCOOOD NO. 12—MARTIN LUTHER AND CATHERINE VON BORA. HE most-talked-of man in Europe in 1525 fell in love with a nun, He T himself was a former monk, The man was Martin Luther, the famous reformer, who had declared his independence of the churchly customs ot the day; and who not only placed the Bible into the hands of the plain people, but was the founder of the Protestant creed in Germany, Luther, after casting loose from the established church, continued ¢o preach his doctrines (often at risk of his life) and to gain new converts by the thousands. Among these converts was a pretty nun named Catherine yon Bora, Catherine, while very young, had entered a convent near Grimma, Germany. News of Luther's teachings reached her and she was soon won over to his way of thjnking in regard to religious matters. She went so far us to convince elght other nuns that Luther's opinions were right. Then the nine women decided to give up convent life, But to make such a decison and tc act upon it were two quite different things, In her perplexity Cath- crine wrote to Luther for ald. \Luther was touched uy her appeal. Through the help of a friend he man- agod to get Catherine and her eight friends out of the convent one night in 1523. The escape of the nine nuns caused a great © sensation. Now that they were freed from the con- vent, Luther did not quite know how to dispose of them. He prevailed upon the relatives of eome to take them into their homes, and he advised others to marry, But Catherine was not so easily settled In fe. She was pretty, and only twenty-four years old. She was also what would now be called a “new woman.” She did not relish the idea of being married out of hand to any man her relatives might chance to select for her, Moreover, she had secretly fallen in love with Luther himself. Wise as the reformer was, he had not the wit to eee this. So he proposed to her that she marry one of his friends. She refused in disgust, He suggested another friend; then another, Still she refused. At length in despair he asked her to name some man she was willing to marry, She calmly named the aston- {shed Luther himself. Luther, though surprised, liked the idea. He had cast off the monk’s cowl and felt he was no longer bound by his former vows of celibacy, He had written treatises advising former priests to marry. Why not set example? So he accepted Catherine's suggestion, and on June 11, 1626, he and the ex-nun were wedded, She was twenty-six, he was forty-two. Luther had the wedding ring made {n the form of a crucifix, The union was very happy, and six ahildren were born to the oddly mated couple, Luther was poor. Cather!ne had no money at all. The hus band’s meagre pay as a professor kept them alive, but they were never well- to-do. It was a hard, ceaseless struggle against poverty, Catherine proved also to have a rather unpleasant temper; and her wrathful lectures concerning her husband's various shortcomings led Luther once to remind her that he and not she was the “preacher” of the family. He also wrote to her, in playful veln, reminding her that the original wife, Scolding Wife, 4 Eve, had been formed of man’s rib, and adding: Brrr “My rib, Kit, thou most learned dame, Cath- erlne Luther! Ah, Kit, thou shouldst never preach, How much these same ribs have to answer for. * * * If [ were going to make love again I would carve an obedient woman out of marble. in despair of finding one {n any other way!" Luther, in spite of the cares and dangers that pressed upon him from every side, had a merry disposition, and took his wife's mages as a Joke. She, {n spite of her bad temper and scolding tongue, loved her husband de- votedly. When, after twenty-one years of wedded life, he died, she was ine consolable, Luther left his family wretchedly poor, To support herself and her large brood of children Cather!no was forced to keap a boarding-house. But she cid not long survive the man she so deeply mourned. Six years after Luther's death she followed him to the grava i‘ ARS, JOHN ALEXANDER VAN/ RENSSELAER had her son ar- tested, She disapproved both his marriage and his occupation, Un-| successful as a broker, which Mrs. Van Rensselaer regarded as a suit-| able and gentlemanly pursuit, he opened a butter, cream and cheese, store on Fourth avenue. As American families go the Van Rensselaers are old and distin-| guished, Although Mrs. Van Rens- selaer was not born so, she also | eame from an old New York family which had plenty to eat and drink, owned the house it lived in and had a few thousand dollars saved before George Washington was President, Mrs, Van Rensselaer’s son complains that he would have gotten | glong better had it not been for her, She is a leading Colonial Dame, | and had blackhalled the mother of a man from whom he occasionally | porrowed money, and the man said that if “hls mother was not good| | enough to belong to the Colonial Dames his money was too good| | for me.” G Beyond dispute Mrs. Van Rensselaer’s ancestors had refrained from) | manual labor and had been in New York society for at least two gen- | erations before the Astors. The original Astor, it will be recalled, was} | a peddler who had not even the facilities of a modern pushcart but car- ried his pack on his back. The original Rhinelander raised garden truck) “and sold excellent cabbages to the English colonial governors. The| , original Goelet was so attached to his farm that he stayed there until + New York grew and made his descendants rich, a $ Escape from } the Convent. One eee | Jolly Husband; >... The Ways of the Stranger in a Barroom Are Past Finding Out; He Furnishes Surprises and Sensations Even After He Has Gone. ted when you step on their feet or fall against chem in the cars, ¥y @ word to them a Dig crowd gathers around and hollers ‘Kill Miasing numbers of this series nileation to Circulation Departme: \of one-cent ata: wilL be enpplied upon ape » Evening World, upon receipt \- ees | i} Reflections of a Bachelor Girl. By Helen Rowland. By Roy L. McCardell. “We're getting too etvilized, that's the trouble,” sald Mr, Jar. “It wasn't HE longest wa? round matrimony {s the shortest that {n the old t!mes when the country was full of rea! Americans.” l way to happiness. ‘sald Gua. "Since I've been in e* ty years I have seen Real ardor used to be expressed in passionate foreigners come here, and I don’ is more al Americans,’ sald the “When I m Ireland, a young man, I wouldn't have belleved there was ricans {f I hadn't had @ cousin who was on the police force who love letters and a willingness to dia for a woman, but now- adays a man can sum he feels in a five-cent tele phone call and a willingness to take her to luncheon ‘The reason a man {a 2o often tempted {s because most of the time that Is what he {s slitting around waiting for, From the stony silence into which the average nusban@ sinks after the honeymoon there must be something aimoat unspeakable about matrimony, It may be very noble of a man to have no secrete from the woman he loves, but It's rather hard an al the other women he has gotten over loving. | Time and tide walt for no man, but the untied womas iad has to walt for any man who chooses to keep her waiting. In fashionable circles one wife and a dog constitute a “¢amily.” —_——_++ S augmented sar- of a great man, the stranger excused h ae ore Bryan’s Daughter Voted for Teddy. Ha," sald Gus, suddenly waking up, ‘that feller don't pay me for nothing shad himself and them last two rounds.” we need, Americans," sald Mr, Jarr wai y. “Don't you ton said before the battle of Monmouth, It r goods the boss alw d drink, ‘Go on eorge Washington sald ‘Put none dut A’ sald that, them was his very words,” said the stranger, ‘ an that, he sald*more than that." hat more did he say?" asked Gus. “Ha sald,” replied the stranger, “ ‘Pu sad let the Irish sleep; we'll need them to do th Leaving both Gus and Mr. Jarr awed on guard, but} She's a ‘‘Cranford” Type of Girl. Bryan Leavitt, daughter of the Democratic nominee for President, {#, however, one who wants to, writes Mistress “Pepys” to the Pittsburg Dispatch from Denver. Mrs, Leavitt, who looks jike a girl lifted bodily from & page of Cranford, !s president of the Jane Jefferson Democratic Club, It ail sounds terribly formidable, and £ was almost frozen stiff at the thought of meeting @ real, live, voting president of a polltical club. Take my word for {t, there 1s not a woman In the country with aweeter, softer eyes, nor a fluMer head, nor a gentler voice, nor a my more appealingly helpless manner of bearing herself, than Ruth Bryan Leavitt, I heard this little tale anent her meeting with Mr, and at night he came to ne of versa. !s friend and pupil, de OWA was a clerk by day and did all of his early Daudet began as an use Paris, starved tn a garret while compostn lived a frugal country Mfe at Crols 1 sees one din the office of elr success and recognition came, says Hart ed a life which our own successful and er than destitution, ver’s Weekly, most lar authors would reat teet | Mrs, Longworth: “Oh, Mra, Leavitt." remarked the gallant Nicholas, 'T one time had the re of voting for your distinguished father.” “Really,” returned the Great Commoner's pretty daughter, “and I once had |the picasure of casting a vote for your distinguished fatherrin-lew!"* +++ The True Philosophy of Life. By President Arthur T. Hadley (Yale University). VPRY day and every hour we have to be making chotces, Sometimes the matter to be decided {8 one like the oholoa of a profession, which will affect our whole future life, and which demands months of care- ful thought. Sometimes {t !s @ mere trivial choice of what we shall eat or drink, what we shall say or do for our amusement, which {s settled upon the Instant and then forgotten. This princtple we call a man's pillopophy of life, A child can perhaps get on without such a philosophy, con- tent to decide each question under the controlling impulse or controlling force of the moment. A man cannot—at least not unless le 1s content to remain ine |tellectually and morally a ohild. He cannot act on one principle at one moment and another principle at another moment, and expect anybody to trust him. He | will have no stability of character; nay, If we are to define character as the habit of doing the mame thing under different circumstances, he will be destitute jot character tteclf, {f you know what sort of principles a man is governed by, you can tell what to rely upon.—Lesile’s Weekly | —_—— + + Cannon to Shoot Airships. I T {s not generally known that so long ago as the year 1870 a apectal kind of cannon was Invented for firing at acrostats. It was slow, however. The pat terns of the new guna naturally vary very considerably, and great secreay |{n being observed; but It te known that some of them, at all events, fire a drum thaped projectile, Uke the old case-shot, but fitted with a time fuse, The bare ing charge Is placed right in the centre, Instead of being near the bottom, es it 1s In modern shrapnel; #0 that, when tho explosion takes place in mid-aig, the large iron bullets with which ite tnterior ts diled are projected up and down and all axound, "Tt gays Roosevelt {s goin’ ter take a party ter Africa ter hunt big game!" “Well, all I've got ter say, Hiram, is that I'm sorry fer them Africans, Just think of the hundreds of ’em that'll be mistook fer deer by them fool | hunters and shot!” t know yet just how much chalk to put ———— T {s terrtbiy Interesting being down among the voting : ladies, Every woman in Denver may Vote !f she wills, Poverty and French Genius. aia iro ih Bie a ee Ruth | Fas Ps